When we read too fast or too slowly, we understand nothing.

So we can only know God well by knowing our iniquities. Therefore those who have known God, without knowing their wretchedness, have not glorified Him, but have glorified themselves.

All men seek happiness. There are no exceptions.... This is the motive of every act of every man, including those who go and hang themselves.

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.

The last advance of reason is to recognize that it is surpassed by innumerable things; it is feeble if it cannot realize that.

Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master; for in disobeying the one we are unfortunate, and in disobeying the other we are fools.